I'm a big fan of the whole pencil shtick. Also the concept of a villain who goes out of his way to erase clues is perfect for a detective super hero
Underrated Super Villains
Did your last thread get Pruned?
Back to your shitpit, retard
This is the first thread I made today. I was in the thread that was pruned but I didn't make it, just posted in it.
Googled this guy and really started digging what he does, I want more villains that play more into Batman's detective side.
Unfortunately modern Batman appeals to self-insert fags, not detective fans. Most of his stories have nothing to do with actually solving crimes.
Damn what did OP do to you?
That's really depressing, a lot of the older "lame" villains could be used in cool and unique ways.
For example, I could see Clock King commiting crimes with such logistical skills, that it would seem impossible to pull off.
I said pencils down
Preaching to the choir. Batman's strength is as a weird detective, but the Batman fandom isn't into that.
Clock King isn't a Batman villain and has had several appearances in the past few years.
I consider him one because Bill Finger used him in the batman episode he wrote. Also his name is fun to say.
Clock King is supposed to be a Green Arrow villain I believe
>What say I clean Clock King’s clock!?
I'd say, you're a Joke-r
Too bad, he's a GA villain.
I was saying I agree that the detective focus is the better way to utilize Batman than "IT'S ONE OF THE BTAS VILLAINS AGAIN AND HERE THEY ARE DOING THE EXACT SAME THING, AGAIN." He doesn't have to be just detective stuff, but it's sorely underutilized in modern Batman comics.
Not the point I was making. The point I was making was that CK has had several appearances in GA, the superhero he actually fights, in the past 10 years.
Wasn't the Eraser also able to straght up erase stuff from existance? That could create some pretty fun fights once he gets caught by Batman, i'm surprised nobody has tried using him recently.
Appearance too silly is the reason everyone gives. "How the fuck would Batman win against a guy who can just erase him existence instantly?" is probably the real, albeit unspoken, reason why.
With a Batarang of course
Morrison used him a decade ago. He was pretty much the only person to use him after his initial appearance.
Morrison retconned him into being a figment of Batman's imagination.
No he didn't, all the other villains are in that scene too and they're obviously real.
Eraser showed up in Peter Tomasi's Detective run but he doesn't have the cool suit and his head is all weird. Don't know how I feel about it.
The Eraser seen in Batman #682 was a figment of Batman's imagination created as Mokkari and Simyan tried to create their army of Bat-clones.
Truly, he was an eraserhead.
Does anyone even remember Music Meister? He was the best villain of Brave and the Bold
He also appeared in one of the Lego games
He's the best kind of one hit wonder.
I love his character, but it's just as well he's never used in the comics. He was the perfect OC for the medium he was introduced in.
>I'm gonna r-r-rub you out, see, r-r-rub you out
In both Lego Batman 3 and Lego DC Super Villains. The latter was kind of bad since they added the red hair for some reason, and they had his voice actor sing every line of dialogue.
So all the other Bat-villains in that same exact scene were imaginary too? They're all real, so why wouldn't the Eraser be?
Yes, they're all part of Batman's hallucination. The entire issue outside the parts with Mokkari and Simyan are a hallucination.
He was more of just a guy who tampered with evidence from crimes and such to cover the tracks of bigger crooks, but actually giving him a power like that could be really cool.
Imagine if he utilized a gimmicky weapon like the "Universal Solvent" (in pic related) as part of his MO, it might be a little dumb but a competent writer could make interesting use of that. I could even see him becoming sort of a kitschy side-character for other villains, sort of a weird/garish C-Lister who's more of a supporting character for the bigger names in Gotham's Underground, kind of like what "The Carpenter" conceptually is, but working in a distinctly different direction.
No shit, Sherlock! THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE CHARACTER HIMSELF IS RETCONNED INTO BEING IMAGINARY! The flashbacks were intended to be actual snapshots of Batman's career. Except for the alternate past where the Waynes didn't die.
What episode was he in that everyone loved? I wanna rewatch it
Except the chronology doesn't line up.
Got the Lego guy of him because he looked pretty neat, tell me more about him!
Please stop posting.
He cleans up crime scenes spotlessly and hires himself out to other criminals for this purpose. In the Rebirth era he has some sort of superpower he can't control where he literally erases people and objects from existence.
>Tiger Shark
>Scorpion
>Vulture
>KG Beast
>Crimson Dynamo (specifically I and III)
>Mandarin
>Destiny
How can you not love the spot
Rebirth sounds depressing, but the OG stuff sounds pretty comfy
>think you're after just one criminal but it doesn't make sense
>of course! It's a pair
Alternatively
>crime scenes have no evidence
>pencil boy's either in Arkham/Rykers or in public but actually not involved with whatever's happening
That's two stories already
>Riddler is once again trying to overcome his obsession on beat Batman
>hires The Eraser to erase the riddles he leaves behind
>but he can't control himself and doesn't tell Eraser what the riddles are or where they lead to, forcing him to solve each of them before Batman to fulfill his contract
What? I'm confused
Is the Riddler solving his own riddles, or is the Eraser doing it to figure out what the riddles are so as to erase it
That image is begging for a “I keep screaming but God won’t answer” edit.
I picture a “modern” Eraser as a cleaner, someone who cleans up murders and other crimes for mobsters and gang members for a price and his meticulous attention to detail gives even Batman a challenge since he cleans up so well that it can look nothing happened in even the most gory crime scenes.
As for his design he still keeps the yellow pinstripe and black shoes but he now has coke bottle glasses and dyed pink hair to simulate the eraser bit of a pencil.
Need I say more?
I think there's potential in Condiment King
He's probably worth a google
Wasn’t there an actual comic where Condiment King became a legitimate threat after Poison Ivy gave him a bunch of strong spices and stuff to put in his condiments that caused anaphylactic shock? and then he was recruited into a team of loser villains run by a guy who supplies them with advanced technology to make them into larger threats (one of them being Polka-Dot Man) and giving him a more advanced condiment slinging minigun?
I could’ve sworn I read a comic like that ages ago.
I think that was Joker's Last Laugh, and he was infected with Joker Toxin like everyone else. Or it could have been at Batgirl comic
>world's greatest detective
>doesn't do any detective stuff anymore
This chad needs a greentext.
What kind of Greentext?
The whole point is for Batman to find the riddle, smooth brain. Nigma wants to stump Batman not get away with a crime. What you wrote makes no sense.
POV of someone in a place that gets held up in a hilariously lethal heist.
he has a furfag jewel thief to fuck.
Tallyman. He has a great design, a heartbreaking backstory, is quirky...I'm honestly surprised he never caught on, I'd love to see more of him.
Well actually I was just going to repost my idea to give him some credence
>Mitchell Mayo is actually a brilliant chemist, only problem is that he got high off his own supply.
>"The Condiment King" was really just his drug fueled bender, high out of his mind trying to rob people to feed his habit.
>Mitchell gets help in Arkham, and tries to go straight. This leads to a shitty fucking job at Gotham Burger.
>Overhears one of his employees talking about making some real money off some drugs and selling it to Black Mask's gang. Mitchell can't help but interject that his stuff is shit. Left with the moral dilemma between staying clean and needing money, Mitchell justifies that he can just make a quick buck and not use
>Using various spices and rare plants, he makes good money
>Gets noticed by either Black Mask or The Penguin.
>Gets put in charge of a lab
>Condiment King ships his shit all over Gotham through a "legitimate" ketchup and mustard brand
So yeah we essentially just Breaking Bad Condiment King. Shit or no?
I love it.
He's had stories where he tries to stop leaving riddles and is shocked to realize he was still leaving them behind unconsciously the whole time.
Something something Earth where C listers and A listers switch places.